This coming weekend, the Stinking Creek community will welcome people to celebrate the 42nd Mountain Heritage Festival.

The Mountain Heritage Community Club’s goal for the festival is to provide enough money to maintain its facilities at the field, but also to provide some other services to the community throughout the year.

Throughout the year there are horse shows, trade days, reunions, church gatherings and sometimes rodeos at Mountain Heritage Field.

Next week the LaFollette City Council will decide what to purchase for the public works department. Public works department head Jim Mullens requested a new street sweeper and backhoe, but the decision was put off at the last regular meeting.

These items were again discussed at Monday night’s workshop as Mullens presented figures for how much they would cost the city.

LaFollette Utility Board serves LaFollette, Campbell County, and parts of Claiborne County and Union County. In lieu of taxes, LUB gives each local government a payment. The total amount LUB paid to LaFollette and the counties it serves this year was around $1,241,900.

Last Thursday night Officer Thomas Gentry of the Caryville Police Department was on the lookout for a vehicle that had allegedly been involved in a hit and run. When he found the vehicle, he pulled it over at the Shoney’s parking lot at around 7:20 p.m.